By: Lafacdio Hernia

Coining 'eigo' slang in nihonogo TOKYO -- The 2011 edition Japan's Annual Encyclopedia of Contemporary Words weighs in at over 1,600 pages and offers definitions for over 27,000 neologisms generated over the past 12 months. Forget the 26,997 main entries; here is a related one, one of the best of the English ones. It's. yup, "Google Syndrome", [グーグル症] (gūguru-shō), which is used to describe hypochondriacs who prefer to search online to understand their medical ailments, real or imagined, rather than consult a real doctor.